There is a particularly charming story that appears in some Bibles and not others. This particular one is the Book of Tobit, which is one of the seven “deuterocanonical” books, which are recognized by ...

The Book of Tobit is one of the seven deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. The Church accepted it into the canon despite some resistance because the Jews themselves had not accepted it as part ...

Here’s a story of demons, supernatural nuptials, and a dog who makes a pilgrimage. The Book of Tobit dates back more than 2500 years, to 700 BCE. It’s considered part of the apocrypha–a set of works ...

For the last ten years or so,I have really been wrestling with the Book of Tobit. I consider myself a conservative Catholic and attended a Catholic school-elementry and high school (and graduated from ...

Photo by Cristiano de Assunção, courtesy of Unsplash. A Reflection for Friday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time Find today’s readings here. Tobit is not a terribly long book, just 14 chapters, one of ...

The book of Tobit is not the most quoted book of the Bible. Indeed, Jewish scholars do not consider it part of the Hebrew Scriptures. For this reason, it is also often excluded from the Protestant ...

In today's Lectionary offering from Tobit 3:1-17, poor Sarah has had almost as many husbands as Zsa Zsa Gabor, and all of them have died on their wedding night at the hands of a demon. The Book of ...

During Mass on Friday, Pope Francis urged Christians to more prayer and hope, especially during the difficult times, instead of finding pleasures in vanity. He reflected on the suffering endured in ...

The word “Apocrypha” commonly denotes the fourteen or fifteen books which are present in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Old Testament but which are not included in the canon of the Hebrew Old ...